Alvaro Fayad

Alvaro Fayad (24 July 1946-1986) was one of the founders of the M-19 leftist guerrilla group in Colombia.

Biography
Alvaro Fayad was born on 24 July 1946 in Ulloa Valley, Colombia, and he met Jaime Bateman Cayon while involved in a communist youth group. In 1970, Bateman and Fayad co-founded M-19 in response to fradulent elections that led to the downfall of a socialist regime, and he was sentenced to 26 years in jail for an arms heist in Canton Norte. Later released under Belisario Betancur in an amnesty, he tried to negotiate peace, but he was killed by police in Bogota in 1986.